Roads, Mills, Laps

My 10-year-old daughter has recently fallen for the Beatles (much better than Hosanna Montana!). In helping her upload the Fab Four’s song “Help” onto her Wrigley’s gum-shaped, antediluvian iPod Shuffle, I noticed that the song’s length is 2:22.

Considering the great many emaciated Don Quixotes with visions of sugarplums and shared USATF-provided hotel rooms in their heads and Brooks racing flats on their feet (the guys who struggled to qualify for the old U.S. Olympic ‘B’ standard–2:22:00–by running millions of miles and endless track repeats in the hopes of banging out sub-5:25/miles for 26+), I thought this coincidence worth a post.*
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Beck is back: His new album, Modern Guilt, is worth picking up.

And…after a painfully long hiatus that left many of us desperately clinging to his haphazard Doc Bushwell postings, he’s also blogging again, thankfully.
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*Since you didn’t ask: “Norwegian Wood” is 2:11 which goes quite well with Frank Bjorkli and “With a Little Help From My Friends”, 2:46, fits nicely with my 2005 Miami debacle. Oh, and “Nowhere Man” is 2:44 which was my 1:17/1:27 apocalyptic (meet the Newton Hills by bending over) positive split at the 2005 Boston Marathon.

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